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So when was America great before? What does that mean exactly? Sometimes you get vague replies of some before-time that was apparently so awesome it knocked your socks off, I remember a video of a Trump supporter chuckling and then saying "Well... before the gays", so I decided to help Trump supporters out.
Pick the year America was great and give up the horrible things associated with everything after that, and please add as you see fit.
2015 - Same sex marriage legalized in all states and territories
2013 - Black Lives Matter movement
2008 - First black president
2006 - Twitter founded (Give it up)
2004 - Facebook founded
2003 - Same sex sexual activity made legal in all states and territories
1991 - World Wide Web is open to the public
1973 - Roe v Wade
1968 - Last year it is legal to discriminate against someone trying to buy or rent because of the color of their skin
1954 - Last year it is legal to have separate schools for white and black students
1950 - BEST YEAR EVER (Excluding Roy Moore Voters)
1940 - About half of Americans have indoor plumbing (Flip a coin to see if you still have it, heads you do, tails you give it up)
1928 - Penicillin (Give antibiotics up)
1920 - Women get the right to vote
1916 - First billionaire in the US (So give up your already fantasy dreams of being a billionaire)
1914 - First flight service with passengers
1902 - First modern air conditioning unit
1885 - The first car
1868 - Being born in the US means you are a citizen
1865 - Still legal to own black people as slaves
1860 - The year right before the Civil War started, this is when America was great according to Roy Moore
1846 - Anesthesia in surgery
1776 - US declares independence from Britain
Before 1776 - First Muslims in America
Can Trump supporters dare to make America great again and live without the people... and things... after the year they say America is great?
TheRealNorth
(9,471 posts)Like the 1880's when Cornelius Vanderbilt could brag about having the Pennsylvania legislature in his pocket, could hire Pinkertons to shoot striking workers, and declare that He could hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
Edit- maybe 1898 - after Plessey vs Ferguson and we were starting to become a real player on the world stage after the Spanish-american war.
Definitely before Teddy R started reigning corporate power in.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,325 posts)Laws that forbid interracial marriage are invalidated.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)you know
when brown folks step to the gutter to let you pass
women didn't vote
rivers burned
food and medicines were adulterated for profit
child labor
company towns and scrip